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Spectral Corp

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Spectral Corp

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Spectral Corp

In this RP, you play local exorcists in Seattle of the new step-site recently created to handle a recent surge of ghostly activity. This RP primarily focuses on exorcists down-time with in the step-site, and the missions they go on. Your characters will face ghosts, other mediums, and even some governmental bureaucracy.

Discord is optional but recommended/ A link will be sent to people who have accepted characters

SEO Database

The Role of the Exorcist in Modern Life

Exorcists are tasked with protecting the citizens from ghosts, and to aid in maintaining law and order, in particular dealing with rogue mediums.

Mediums are provided free room and board at their local SEO branch step-site and are provided a reasonable allotment for their work, mostly but not entirely based on their license rank and time in service. Exorcist have a responsibility to follow a code of conduct while representing the SEO.

Bronze, Iron and Silver licensed mediums have no defined work-schedule, but are instead assigned tasks that must be completed before a deadline. In addition, Silver and sometimes Iron licensed mediums are expected to be react to emergencies as soon as possible.

As a licensed exorcist you are granted certain privileges to use your medium abilities, however the SEO reserves the right to monitor your use of power and take action if there is misconduct. The SEO is not responsible for any damages or injuries that occur when a medium uses their power in a way not officially sanctioned by the SEO.

Ghosts

Ghosts are the disembodied souls of the dead. Records of ghosts have been dated back to prehistoric times. The existence of ghosts are common knowledge, however many people outside of the exorcist community have little to no understanding about them.

In order to exist within the mortal plane ghosts require one or more anchors, a physical object with the ghost has a deep spiritual attachment to. The ghost’s former body almost always survives as an anchor. The ashes of the cremated can also serve as an anchor, albeit one that is weaker than a normal corpse. However crematoriums can be as haunted if not more haunted than graveyards.

Most ghosts are harmless, however a high concretion of ghostly activity or a single power ghost can pose possible dangers. Ghosts are not quite like normal souls as they have been inflicted with a mysterious energy from behind the veil, which can be a source of strange powers or deviations in behavior. It is of note that most ghosts are able to influence items that they are spiritually connected to, but the mere presence of ghosts can disrupt radio waves and electrical objects.

Completely banishing a ghost is near impossible feat but ghosts can be trapped inside certain objects and rendered harmless, however this is usually unnecessary.

Mediums

When a young person experiences the death of a spiritually significant person or experience the death of many people in a small frame of time, they can potentially become a death-bounded person through an event known as a DBE (Death-binding event) Death-bounded persons have a limited sense of supernatural energy. The event that causes a death-bounded person to become a medium is know as “Reaching beyond the Veil”, and is often described in highly emotional terms that can vary from anger, despair, fear, or even happiness. This event can occur purposefully whenever a death-bounded person attempts to reach out into the spiritual world for the first time, or accidentally whenever a death-bounded person enters a place that has a heightened amount of spectral energy.

Mediums have a full sense of spectral energy, being able to easily detect it and they are able to influence it and ghosts using their force of will. In addition, moderately trained mediums often develop weak supernatural abilities such as minor telekinesis, minor pyrokinesis, and other abilities. Additional training can increase the degree of the power and control over their abilities.

SEO

The SEO (Spectral Energy Organization) is a multinational agency with representatives from the US, Canada, Brazil, Britain, France, Germany, Egypt, Japan, Australia, and South Korea. It was founded shortly after the formation of the UN. It is often called the partially derogatory term, “Spectral Corp”. The core leadership is known as the Central Authority and all members of the CA are elected from high ranking members of the SEO by the member states.

The SEO licenses all official exorcists within the listed countries, there are multiple tiers of licenses each with their own duties and privileges.

Bronze: Also known as the provisional license. They are the most limited in function and are only allowed to perform low-level rituals. They are response for handling many of the daily operations.

Iron: Elevated about Bronze tier, they are still limited in the functions they are allowed to perform. However, they are permitted to do most common forms of rituals.

Silver: The main work-force of the SEO. They are permitted to perform almost any rituals except the most advanced versions and those that are universally illegal. The are tasked with most public requests, standard ghost evaluations, and regular exorcisms.

Gold: Also known as Branch-leaders. They organize and command the lower ranking exorcists within his assigned step-site.

Platinum: Also known as Region-leaders. They organize and command multiple gold licensed exorcists.

Diamond: Also known as Nation-leaders. They are one step below the Central Authority. They organize and command multiple platinum licensed exorcist.

There are also several speciality licenses, most notably the inspector license which permits the agents to handle internal affairs and former-SEO rogue mediums. They report directly to Diamond exorcists.

March 6, 1997

On this date, a group of medium terrorist known as, “The Hallowed Court” broke away from the SEO and unleashed many dangerous ghosts keep in containment and attempted but failed to destroyed the Independence Hall. This event is used by the SEO as justification for stricter rules about the conduit of mediums.

Common Exorcist Resources

This is a list of commonly noted items by exorcists, the list is not exhaustive.

Silver/ Wood from a Willow/Holly/Birch Tree: While they are unable to harm ghosts, these materials are particularly resistant to ghostly powers.

Salt: Most ghosts are incapable of crossing lines of salt, and generally show adverse reactions to coming in contact with it. The purer the salt, the more potent. Rocksalt is the exorcist salt of choice. Common Iodized salt is particularly weak.

Holy Water: A term given to describe pure, chemical H2O. Ghosts show a generally adverse reaction to coming in contact with it, and it is often used to help cleanse objects of spectral energy.

Common Sage/Rosemary/Holly: Commonly used in incense that can ward off ghosts and help stabilize rituals.

Graveyard Dust: Soil that comes from graveyards. It use is highly regulated, as it can attract ghosts and be used in illegal rituals.

Various Gemstones: Crystals and gemstones have been noted to have certain effects on mediums and ghosts depending on the type of crystal/gemstone whenever they are a very short distance. Some gemstones are also useful for rituals.

Q/A

Q. When is this RP set in?
A. Early Spring, 2017.

Q. Is history the same despite having ghosts?
A. For the most part, yes. However, the current leaders of each country are fictional characters.

Q. Is it limited to just ghosts, or is there other elements of the supernatural (IE: Werewolves, Vampires)
A. The focus is on ghosts and mediums, however that is not to say that no other supernatural presences exists. However, there will not be werewolves or vampires as to not to distract from the main premise.

CS

Character Sheet

Name:

Date of Birth: ((Your character must be at least 19 years old.))
SEO License: ((Iron, Bronze, or Silver. This is what your rank is, the majority of operators in the field hold a Silver license))

Physical Description
((This is your Appearance section, how your character looks))

Psychological Profile
((This is your Personality section, how your character acts))

Medium Talent: ((What small ability may or may have not manifested from your time as a medium followed by a brief descriptor. This can be empty.))

Qualifications ((a list of your experiences before being inducted into the SEO

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

Profile
((This is your History section, or how your character’s life has gone up to this point))

Rules

Don't Break Guild Rules
Be Nice, and Respect the GM and Co-GMs
Play to the setting and Play to your character
Follow basic RP etiquette (No power-playing, no meta-gaming, etc)
The GM has the right to add and remove rules as sees fit
PM me or post your CS in the OOC and wait for it to be approved before posting it in the character tab
Should I be gone for more than a week, then either Patches or Lance can take control of the RP until I return

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I think I need more information, but so far I am interested in a bit of chaotic super-power rp.

Spectral Corp

@ProPro @GingerBoi123

For now, I think it would be to be a bit of a Question and Answer. Some of these questions come from the RP guild discord:

Q and A

Q. How well known is spectral activity in this world?

A. People understand that it is a thing that exists, however they don't understand the details about it. They may know that salt wards off spirits, and use their iodized table salt. They have know about this for basically as long as recorded history, though history remains largely the same. However, the leaders of each nation are likely to be fictional characters if they come up.

Q.Are the operations of the SEO public knowledge?

A. Yes, people also understand that SEO is a multi-nation agency. If you flash your license to a police, they will respect that authority. However they do try to keep things low-key and when they do (rarely) release information to the public, it involves a lot of redactions.

Q. How do they react to a perfectly normal person walking in on their operations unexpectedly?

A. Depends on the operations. If there is a poltergeist throwing knives around the room, or other similarly dangerous ghosts they try to evacuate them. Also, citizens might be removed from the area if they are interfering with the SEO. However, some times the next of kin might be needed to help during a seance or something.

Q. is it just limited ghosts or are there more aspects of the supernatural? (e.g. Werewolves, vampires etc)

A. There are more aspect of the supernatural, but it is largely ghosts. However, there are no werewolves or vampires, in order to not distract from the central premise. And when you have the choice to be a vampire/werewolf, then if you don't pick on, you are usually just punished.

Q. When was the SEO founded?

A. Shortly after the founding of the UN

Q. Why don't people just commit suicide?

A. Most ghosts are just echoes of themselves and are only able to be seen by mediums. Some ghosts manifest more strongly, however those are usually the ghosts you will be tasked with dealing with even if they are not evil now, death has its way of slowly messing with your personality until you are barely recognizable.

Q. How do you punish a ghost?

A. Usually by trapping in a containing that they can not escape from without outside help.

Also, I would prefer that people play silver exorcist (You can play bronze or iron, but you will be handicapping yourself). However the "main story line" so far is that you will be opposing another group of rogue exorcists. So you wouldn't need your character to go after them, they will come for him. Keeping things in a single area tends to help group cohesion.

War Notes

@TheWindel STAHP. JUST STAHP. I am pretty sure in the same hour you just changed the GIF. PICK ONE ALREADY. JUST PICK ONE..
/cries in corner.

War Notes

I used another color of dialogue to indicate that Finis was speaking in his normal voice.

War Notes

Finis was confused by this strange-man. He did not seem particularly religious for a person in a temple. He moved his hand downwards towards his hip, closer to his dagger. Though, it would be a shame to spill blood on consecrated ground.

Finis walked towards the wall, and but his back to it. He decided to tell him his family code, however that might not be favorable to him at the current moment. He was not sure if his plan would work, however he had seemingly disregarded due to his youth, there was a possibility he could exploit that to his advantage.

He coughed a bit, tuning his voice to softer and less authoritative, he purposely tried to break his normal pattern of speech which took him another moment of thought. "Oh, hey. You seem to travel around. I move around to with my family. They told me to come here and give my respect to the priest. And yes, I have been good. Though, some locals were talking about ghosts. Do you know anything about that? You seem like you could take on a ghost. Oh, though, do you know where the priest is?"

Spectral Corp

Spectral Corp

Overview
Your character is a medium, a person capable of influencing the spiritual world due to a connection with death you developed at an early age. In particular, your character is a licensed exorcist, a medium given an official license from the multi-national organization SEO in order to protect the public from ghostly harm. Your duty is to maintain order in the spiritual world, help law enforcer with your ability to contact the dead, and bring rogue mediums to justice.

The gameplay cycle involves the characters within their headquarters, a mission, and repeat giving elements of both some slice of life and some adventure in abandoned factories or cemeteries. Below is additional information

Looking for 4-7 players.

LORE

Mediums

Mediums are people who have been around death from a very young age, becoming bonded with death and gaining the ability to see beyond the veil. The event that causes one to become bonded with death is called the MIE (Medium-Inducing Experience). Most MIE occur before a person reaches the age of two, however MIEs have been observed from up to the age of five. However, the occurrence of MIE does not make one a medium, it merely gives them the opportunity to become a medium, and not everyone who has been around death from a young age experiences a MIE. Usually, the person who dies needs to be close to medium-to-be either by blood or constant interaction. However, it is not uncommon for MIEs to occurred when many people die at a single event.

Once a person has had an MIE, they are call death-bounded. All mediums are death-bound, but not all death-bound are mediums. Death-bounds have a slight capacity to see beyond the veil, but usually in a very limited sense, having the ability to occasionally hear whispers of ghosts or see sometimes seeing blurs left behind by a soul.

A death-bounded person becomes a medium when they reach beyond the veil. This can occur intentional or accidental, however the experience is almost universally considered a life-changing experience. Some find it euphoric, while others find it traumatizing. Reaching beyond the veil is something that all death-bounds and mediums are able to do potentially, however to do it intentionally requires a strong force of will, and reaching beyond the veil leaves scars on one’s soul. Reaching beyond the veil can occur accidentally whenever a medium crosses a point where the veil between life and death is particularly weak.

All Mediums are capable of easily seeing ghosts and have at least some form of communication with them. However, a medium can refine their talents to control ghosts, see the souls of the living and the trances of a person’s soul on objects, and even invoke minor supernatural powers such as enough telekinesis to move a object no larger than an apple.

Ghosts

Ghosts are the souls of the dead that have not completely passed beyond the veil. Ghosts are actually natural and for the most part harmless, and to completely banish a ghost to the other side of the veil requires a ton of effort.

In order to remain within the mortal realm, ghosts require an anchor. An anchor is any inorganic or dead object that a soul has a strong connection to. To completely disassociate a ghost with its anchor is one of the hardest things a medium can attempt to do. All most all ghosts have their dead body as an anchor, cremation reduces the link between the ghost and the anchor, however the ashes are still an anchor, albeit a weaker one. Crematoriums are infamous for how haunted they can be, to the point where they can be more haunted than graveyards.

However, ghosts are not invulnerable. A medium are able to use their link with the veil in order to communicate or try to force a ghost beyond the veil. However, trying to push an unweakened ghost beyond the veil is very hard, and gives the possibility for them to return.

Ghosts have particular earthly weaknesses besides the medium, commonly used ones include but are not limited to:

Salt: Ghosts are unable to cross lines of salt, and when they make contact with salt they are pushed back and usually harmed. The high purity of the salt the more potent it is. Iodized salt is very weak, whereas rock salt is very potent.

Holy Water: A term given to pure H2O. Holy water is noted for its ability to remove spiritual energy. The H2O does not have to perfectly pure, but the more pure the more potent. Specialized filters must be used in the creation of holy water (from normal water) that are very large and expensive.

Silver: Silver is not particularly effective against ghosts, however it is the metal of choice of most exorcist. It is particularly resistant to ghostly interference.

Common Sage/Rosemary: Commonly used as incense to ward off ghosts or help in rituals.

Holly/Willow/Birch: The wood of a holy acts much like silver, and it is also used to create incenses.

Graveyard Dust: Dirt taken from a graveyard, highly illegal, but works similar to salt, if not more potent, and is often used in cursing rituals.
When Mediums die, they do not naturally leave behind ghosts. A medium has became bond to the veil, and when they die, its call is impossible to resist. It is possible to create a method to leave behind a ghost, however all such methods are highly illegal.

SEO

The SEO (Spectral Energy Organization) is a multi-governmental agency with representatives from the US, Canada, Brazil, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Australia and South Korea. Often called Spec Corp as a somewhat derogatory term referring to its highly bureaucratic nature.

The SEO licenses all official exorcists. Unlicensed exorcism is highly illegal.

The SEO has multiple tiers of licenses that they provide, each with their own privileges and duties:

Bronze: They are grunt-workers performing the menial tasks such as purifying water into holy water, setting up the equipment, filing information, etc. However, they are permitted to perform low-level exorcisms and seances.

Iron: They are elevated above bronze tier, but are still limited in the the functions they are allowed to perform. They are allowed to perform most types of common exorcisms and seances, and some more advanced versions.

Silver: The primary force of the SEO. They are permitted to perform almost any type of exorcism or seance barring only the most advanced forms of both or ones that are universally illegal. They are tasked with handling most request by the public and doing periodic inspections of common ghost-haunts.

Gold: Those with a gold license are officially apart of the SEO, and act as coordinators and leaders for silver and bronze licensed exorcists.

Platinium: A higher leadership position than gold. Platinum exorcist often oversees multiple gold exorcists.

Diamond: A higher leadership position than platinum. They oversee multiple platinium exorcists. They are right below the Central Authority.

Inspector: Inspectors are considered just below Diamond, and report directly to them. They handle internal affairs and former SEO gone rogue exorcists.

Central Authority: The highest tier within the SEO. They are not given lincesed, but appointed by the governments that compose the SEO. They are selected from the pool of Inspectors and Diamond tier

Beyond the Veil

No one is quite sure what is behind the veil that separates our world from the next, and the SEO has no official statement about that. However, whatever knows about the veil is that there is a lot of power there.

Ghosts are changed by what is beyond the veil. They are not quite what they are like in life, though not completely different either. However, to a medium, the soul of a ghost is very distinctive due to radiating energy from the veil.

The first time a death-bound reaches beyond the veil to become a medium is when embrace with this power, and become not quite human anymore.

March 6, 1997

On this date, a group of medium terrorist known as, “The Hallowed Court” broke away from the SEO and unleashed many dangerous ghosts keep in containment, and attempted but failed to destroyed the Independence Hall. This event is used by the SEO as justification for stricter rules about the conduit of mediums.

War Notes

Well, I post in response to Windel, I will need some time to think how Natus would interact, and possibly give some time for people to join Natus at the church.